The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, announced in Sunday the delay of the release of the Palestinian prisoners that was scheduled for Saturday until Hamas guarantees that of the next hostages of Gaza, according to a statement released by his office.
“It has been decided to delay the release of the terrorists planned for yesterday until the release of the next hostages is guaranteed, and without degrading ceremonies,” said a statement from the Netanyahu office at dawn, after hours of backwardness of the release of the prisoners.
The commission of matters of the detainees and ex -detainees of the Palestinian government confirmed shortly after the news in another statement: “postponed the release of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli occupation until new notice.”
Although the last hostage in Gaza whose release was scheduled for this Saturday, the Beduino Hisham al Sayed, left the enclave early in the afternoon, the release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners that was expected accordingly delaying
In the statement, Netanyahu said that the reason for delaying the liberation of prisoners were “the repeated violations” of the Hamás Fire Agreement, thereby referring to “the ceremonies that belittle hostages with propaganda motifs.”
This Saturday and as in previous exchanges, Hamas made the hostages released (except Al Sayed) by stage with the militiamen before giving them to the Red Cross.
In addition, at the last minute of the night the Islamist group spread a propaganda video of two other captives that follow in the enclave, avoid David and Guy Gilboa Dalal, watching from a van the release this morning of Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov and Eliya Cohen. From the vehicle, the two hostages appealed to Netanyahu to move forward with the high fire.
A few minutes before Netanyahu’s announcement, the Palestinian red crescent claimed to prepare to move one of the prisoners, Kazem Zawahira, directly to a Hospital in Bethlehem (south of the West Bank) as he left prison. After the Israeli announcement, the organization withdrew its ambulances from the collection point.
At 23:57 local time (21:57 GMT), the detainees’ affairs commission announced that in Ramala, the point of liberation of prisoners in the West Bank, the authorities were prepared to receive the bus with the prisoners. Israeli media also collected that Israel was about to let out the buses with the detainees.
Little more than an hour later, the Israel government communicated the temporary suspension of liberation.
Israel now determines the release of the Palestinian prisoners to which to guarantee that of the next hostages in Gaza, although the statement does not specify whether this affects only the four dead that Islamists have to deliver next Thursday (the last of the first of the first Phase of Alto El Fuego) or the rest of the captives in the enclave.
Tens of thousands of dead in Gaza in less than a year and a half
The first phase of the Alto El Fuego agreement, lasting, will end next weekend without, for the moment, the parties have advanced in the details of the next phase, in which the rest of the rest of Hostages, more than 60. All were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, during Hamas’s assault in southern Israel, during which some 1,200 people were also killed.
In total, the release of 33 hostages was agreed: 25 of them alive and the bodies of eight other deaths. In return, Israel promised to release some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Next Thursday, February 27, the last four bodies in the hands of the Gaza militiamen and, in return, Israel will release the last group of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
This process has lived several ups and downs, both the various pressures and delays by Israel, since Netanyahu “does not want to fulfill what was agreed”, as well as the delivery by Hamas of the remains of the Shiri Bibas hostage after receiving by mistake a body a body That was not from the Israeli. In the middle, Israel left the UN Human Rights Council and Trump proposed ethnic cleaning in Gaza supported by Netanyahu.
Israel’s punishment war against Gaza since October 2023 has already left at least 48,000 dead, according to local authorities, although several scientific studies such as the last published in February in The Lancet They raise that figure to tens of thousands more. The second phase of the agreement must end the total withdrawal of Israel of the Strip and the end of the war.
Source: www.eldiario.es
